….And Why It Could Happen Again

In early January 2009, a group within the Pentagon, tasked with understanding asymmetric warfare contracted me to research and explain the role that Economic Warfare may have played in the stock market crash underway at the time. We had already witnessed how the market crash played a decisive role in the Presidential election. When I was hired, President Bush was about to hand the reigns of power to Senator Obama. He was destined to take America in an entirely new direction.

After completing that report, and for the next two years, my team and I briefed everyone we could find inside government to warn that unless we eliminated the serious vulnerabilities exposed, the same process could repeat. We went to FBI, DIA, HASC, ONA, DARPA, IARPA, SEC, among others. We briefed a retired CIA Director who remains active in the national security community and a retired National Security Advisor. Those we briefed were in the highest seats of authority and almost universally admitted that we had a problem. It just wasn’t clear who would be responsible to address it and without White House support, it would not be addressed. No single agency was responsible. It wasn’t in their “swimming lanes.” [You can get an idea of some of the people briefed by looking at those who graciously wrote book endorsements here and here.]